{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-automatic-catchweighers-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-automatic-catchweighers-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/383",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Catchweighers) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-automatic-catchweighers-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2006 Regulations” means the Measuring Instruments (Automatic Catchweighers) Regulations 2006;\n“accuracy class” means the classification of an automatic catchweigher in accordance with paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the 2006 Regulations;\n“automatic catchweigher” means an automatic weighing instrument that determines the mass of pre-assembled discrete loads (for example pre-packages) or single loads of loose material, but does not include an automatic checkweigher or an automatic weight grading instrument;\n“automatic checkweigher” means an automatic catchweigher which sub-divides articles of different mass into two or more sub-groups according to the value of the difference between their mass and the nominal set point;\n“automatic weight grading instrument” means an instrument which sub-divides articles of different mass into several sub-groups each characterised by a given mass range;\n“essential requirements” means the requirements set out in Schedule 1 to the 2006 Regulations;\n“instrument” has the same meaning as automatic catchweigher;\n“place on the market” means making available for the first time in a member State an instrument intended for an end user, whether for reward or free of charge; and\n“put into use” means the first use of an instrument intended for the end user for the purposes for which it was intended.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 15.10.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/1257"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/383/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:39:29.388245+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}